David Pogue's PETE&C Keynote
I am blogging from the PETE&C Monday keynote.
Technology
VOIP (Internet Phone)
- Phone company is not involved
- Requires high-speed Internet
- No taxes or fees
- Carry your number
- Every feature possible . . .
Skype
- 250 million users
- free computer-to-computer
- "when they bring it to the cell phone . . ."
T-Mobile - Hot Spot @ Home
- in a wireless hot spot, all calls are free
- give users a wireless station for house
- free, even overseas!
Google Cellular
- text to 466-45 (Google information)
- "weather city name"
- flight information "aa 132"
- stock quotes "amzn"
- movie showtimes "shrek 18018"
- definitions "define word"
- driving directions "miami fl to 60609"
- currency conversions
Voice to Text - for Voicemail (emails a summary and sends 140 character text message)
- Simbox
- SimulScribe
- CallWave (free, but just the gist of the message)
A la Carte TV
- any show at any time
- iTunes TV store ($2/show, no ads)
- HD v. Blu-Ray Disc (each only has half of Hollywood's collective library . . .)
- possible outcomes
- Blu-Ray looks like it will win (two studios converted)
- HD-DVD wins
- dual-layer players win (3x the cost of original)
- all studios release in all formats
- Internet wins and wipes out both
- Audience-created TV
- Revver, Metacafe (1,000 views = $5), YouTube
Wireless Everywhere
- Verizon cellular cards for laptops (online @ DSL speeds anywhere)
- iPhone - get online anywhere (will get smaller in size, larger hard drive, faster connectivity)
- Eye-Fi (2G memory card, next time you walk into Wi-Fi hotspot it uploads to Flickr and back to computer, syncs)
- Netgear - Wi-Fi Skype phone, can make free unlimited calls in a Wi-Fi hotspot
Tech Shifts > Culture Shifts
- Graffiti keyboard - became the new shorthand
- Chat/Cell terms to know
- LOL - laughing out loud
- MORF? - male or female
- AFK - away from keyboard
- BRB - be right back
- IMHO - in my humble opinion
- TTFN - ta ta for now
- POS - parent over shoulder
- WIWYA - when I was your age
- LODH - log off do homework
Perks for the Online Generation
- connected to everyone everywhere
- instant gratification (email is considered old fashioned)
Web 2.0
- sites where "we the people" supply the material
- Facebook, MySpace
- Craigslist
- Flickr
- YouTube
Things Splinter
- add-on
- subdividing of our attention span
- anytime we have information that others would benefit from we share
GoLoco
- coordinate carpools and trips
Prosper.com
- microloans from people to people
Challenges
- interface challenge
- machines getting smaller, but we stay the same size
- too many functions with too little screen space
- copyright issues (very murky - no black and white because of the Fair Use provisions of Copyright Laws)
There is a lot that educators must teach along with the tools and along with the equipment. What happens on the Internet happens on a world stage. We need to teach students what is real and reliable. Digital content is FOREVER!
3 comments:
Thanks Jen - I couldn't copy it down fast enough and I missed a lot of the Google text stuff. I thought they would post it to edhub, but you are much faster!
Did you catch the name of the program he wanted all of us to use with the cell phone poll? I missed that, I know it didn't work the way he wanted, but I missed the name of the program.
The name of the application is PollEverywhere http://polleverywhere.com/
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